No search engines in firefox

[Fargo]

I'm at my parents for Christmas and working on my moms computer, I just realized that Firefox has no search engines. Not only that but I have been unable to install any. I go to the searchbar on the right and click on the down arrow where the search engines should be and there is nothing there. I click on 'Manage Search Engines' and there is nothing in the list. I am unable to add any either.

I have tried to add a new profile but that did not help. I even did a complete removal of firefox and manually removed the firefox folder before doing a fresh install. Even with a completely new install I do not have any search engines. Please help.

[Orbmiser]

Did you try google? As haven't heard of that one before.

https://www.google.com/search?as_qdr=y& ... gws_rd=ssl

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[patzy]

I actually do have the search engines there but can not see them.
I have found that I have to write something in the search box and highlight it and only then will clicking on that tiny down arrow show them, so I can choose which one to run. Very annoying.

[Orbmiser]

Yep clicking on magnifying glass icon and selecting search settings. Should bring up the list of search engines.

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Start typing should bring up a selection to choose as alternative for searches.

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Yep as search has changed in Firefox 34.0.5 don't know when it was implemented before that version beginning of 34?
And as you can see I have "Provide Search suggestions" unchecked and still getting them anyways.

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[Fargo]

Yep clicking on magnifying glass icon and selecting search settings. Should bring up the list of search engines.

search settings.jpeg

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Interesting, I don't even have a tab for search in my preferences section. Something is just not installed properly and I have uninstalled/reinstalled twice.

Also I have noticed I can't open a link in a new tab or a new window.

[Orbmiser]

Interesting, I don't even have a tab for search in my preferences section. Something is just not installed properly and I have uninstalled/reinstalled twice.

Also I have noticed I can't open a link in a new tab or a new window.

Well it is Firefox 34.0.5 in Netrunner. Hoping SolydXK is still up to date with Firefox?

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[kurotsugi]

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apt-cache policy firefox
sudo apt-get update
sudo aptitude -s dist-upgrade

fist of all, please give us the result of these commands.

the search tab only exist on firefox 34.0.5. if you're on older firefox you can get that option by clicking the tiny arrow on search bar then select manages search engines. there's also trick to use address bar for googling stuffs. first of all, type 'about:config' on address bar then press enter. search for "keyword.URL'" then change the content into "https://www.google.com/search?q=". in that way you can directly use address bar to search something on google. other search engine also works in same way.

[Fargo]

I am using Firefox ESR 31.3.0 with Solydk BE.

Here are the results from the commands above;

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fargo@fargo ~ $ apt-cache policy firefox
firefox:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 34.0.5
  Version table:
     34.0.5 0
        500 http://packages.solydxk.com/business/ solydxk/main amd64 Packages

fargo@fargo ~ $ sudo apt-get update
[sudo] password for fargo: 
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org wheezy Release.gpg                                                                             
Hit http://security.debian.org wheezy/updates Release.gpg                                                                   
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org wheezy Release                   
Hit http://security.debian.org wheezy/updates Release                               
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org wheezy/main amd64 Packages                             
Hit http://security.debian.org wheezy/updates/main amd64 Packages                                                      
Hit http://security.debian.org wheezy/updates/contrib amd64 Packages                                                   
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org wheezy/contrib amd64 Packages                                       
Hit http://security.debian.org wheezy/updates/non-free amd64 Packages                   
Hit http://packages.solydxk.com solydxk Release.gpg                                     
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org wheezy/non-free amd64 Packages                             
Hit http://security.debian.org wheezy/updates/main i386 Packages                        
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org wheezy/main i386 Packages                                  
Hit http://packages.solydxk.com solydxk Release                                         
Hit http://security.debian.org wheezy/updates/contrib i386 Packages                      
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org wheezy/contrib i386 Packages                               
Hit http://security.debian.org wheezy/updates/non-free i386 Packages                    
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org wheezy/non-free i386 Packages                              
Hit http://packages.solydxk.com solydxk/main amd64 Packages       
Hit http://packages.solydxk.com solydxk/upstream amd64 Packages
Hit http://packages.solydxk.com solydxk/import amd64 Packages
Hit http://packages.solydxk.com solydxk/main i386 Packages
Hit http://packages.solydxk.com solydxk/upstream i386 Packages
Hit http://packages.solydxk.com solydxk/import i386 Packages
Reading package lists... Done                


fargo@fargo ~ $ sudo aptitude -s dist-upgrade
No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used.
Would download/install/remove packages.

I'm really at a loss here. I appreciate the help.

[Fargo]

... if you're on older firefox you can get that option by clicking the tiny arrow on search bar then select manages search engines.

Yeah thats the problem. That doesn't work. THere are no search engines listed and if I click 'manage search engines' nothing happens. Its weird.

[kurotsugi]

it could be a bug in solydxk's firefox-esr. iceweasel and firefox seems doesn't have this issue. the easiest way to fix it would be replace firefox-esr with firefox or iceweasel.

[Fargo]

it could be a bug in solydxk's firefox-esr. iceweasel and firefox seems doesn't have this issue. the easiest way to fix it would be replace firefox-esr with firefox or iceweasel.

I wondered about that too, but I just updated to firefox 31 from the previous version because it did not work. I thought the update would fix it. But it didn't so I'm inclined to think something else got messed up somewhere. There have been 9 grandkids playing on the machine over the weekend so it wouldn't surprise me if they messed something up. But even a fresh install didn't fix it.

I'll try the non esr version to see what it does. I'll post back soon.

[Fargo]

I updated to 34.05 and it did not have search engines either. However, I was able to add a couple. So at least now it has a search engine. So I'll leave it at this. Thanks for the help guys.

[fleabus]

I could be missing something here, because I always use firefox-esr and not the new ones. But. One of the things I do when configuring Firefox in a new install is to remove firefox-solydxk-adjustments, because I have no need for the included add-ons. Unfortunately this also removes search engines.

I have never had any trouble going to Mycroft Project and re-adding search engines from there.

The first thing I do is search for "google year". The tested ones have check marks by them. Just click the one you want, and click ok, and it's added.

BTW, it was Orb who told me about searching for "google year" on Mycroft way back in the dim past...

[Orbmiser]

"The first thing I do is search for "google year". "

Yep that's my default. Really helps getting timely responses on linux issues etc...

Great Minds Think Alike!

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[Fargo]

I could be missing something here, because I always use firefox-esr and not the new ones. But. One of the things I do when configuring Firefox in a new install is to remove firefox-solydxk-adjustments, because I have no need for the included add-ons. Unfortunately this also removes search engines.

I have never had any trouble going to Mycroft Project and re-adding search engines from there.

The first thing I do is search for "google year". The tested ones have check marks by them. Just click the one you want, and click ok, and it's added.

BTW, it was Orb who told me about searching for "google year" on Mycroft way back in the dim past...

My soldyxk-adjustments were not installed. Maybe that was the issue. I assumed they didn't apply to the esr. But I was also unable to install any search engines. I'm back home now and won't have access to the machine again for a few months. So it will have to remain as I left it. Maybe by the time I get to it again, I can install the new 'Jessie' based Solyd on it. Thanks for all the timely help. I was glad the forum had helpful people available when I needed it.